University of Virginia Law student Jordan Kijewski discusses public service summer work
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Before coming to the University of Virginia School of Law, Jordan Kijewski ’24 helped underrepresented high school students apply to college and “adopted” a grandmother who became a close friend. Kijewski, a native of Haymarket, Virginia, studied U.S. government and politics and American studies as an undergraduate at UVA.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — After serving time for riding in a car where a gun was found, Charlottesville civic leader Whitmore Merrick Jr. decided he needed his Second Amendment rights restored in order to lawfully possess a firearm in his own right.
Read More about University of Virginia Law Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic helps former inmates regain civil rightsLooking at the successes of University of Virginia Law clinics
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — During the past year, students in clinics at the University of Virginia School of Law secured the bonded release of an asylum-seeking client, helped a child with autism attend school and procured clients’ disability income and debt relief, among other accomplishments.
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WINSTON SALEM JOURNAL — Jane Aiken, the dean of the Wake Forest University School of Law, will step away from her position July 31, the university said Thursday. Aiken will take a research leave to work on issues regarding reproductive rights as a consulting counsel with National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a nonprofit organization in…
Read More about Wake Forest Law dean Jane Aiken to step down from position and join reproductive rights organization during research leaveSt. Thomas University Law dean Tamara F. Lawson to become dean of University of Washington Law
UW NEWS — Tamara F. Lawson has been named to the next Toni Rembe Endowed Deanship of the University of Washington’s School of Law, Provost Mark A. Richards announced today.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — As Florida policymakers pursue state-level restrictions on transgender care, legal and medical experts from Yale Law School, the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern, and University of Alabama at Birmingham have released a new report that identifies and refutes the…
Read More about Yale Law legal and medical experts co-author report on medical treatments for gender dysphoriaOpinion: Academic administrators should be well-versed in business terms
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Gut instinct, hunches and intuition are generally poor guides to decision making. In today’s challenging economic environment, it’s essential for academic administrators at all levels to acquire a firm grasp of data-informed decision making and academic program evaluation and management.
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USA TODAY — Americans on both ends of the political spectrum agree: Earning a bachelor’s degree may help people find good jobs and could improve society, but attending college can be too expensive and time-consuming for working adults. Many say the American economy is rigged in favor of the rich and influential, according to a…
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Corinne Low, an assistant professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania, sat down with her colleagues last month to discuss what Low said was the year’s biggest event for economists: the Allied Social Sciences Association’s Annual Meeting, hosted by the American Economic Association.
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CNN — The Biden administration has a plan to slow interest from adding to borrowers’ federal student loan debt balances.
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